Breaking Down Quotes - Page 18

• You need to understand plant chemistry, be inured to discomfort and awesomely flexible. When something breaks down-the plane, the boat, you just have to roll with it.

  Chris Kilham

  Medicine, Needs, Chemistry

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• For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation.  But the deep collision is and has been with my unregenerate, tormenting and tormented self...I am unable to become what I see.  I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, "won't go".

  May Sarton

  Self, Long, Machines

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• Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down!

  Garrison Wynn

  Moving, Communication, Engineering

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• Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

  Russell Baker

  Funny, Science, Car

  Russell Baker (1991). “There's a Country in My Cellar”, Avon Books

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• In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girly, Morning, Motivation

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• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

  Russell Baker

  Funny, Break Up, Work

  "The Plot Against People". The New York Times, June 18, 1968.

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• I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Views, Years, People

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.97, Vintage

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• I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

  Gail Porter

  Want, Mental Health, Mental Illness

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• Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Trying, Wonderful

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.

  John Agard

  Self, People, Enlightening

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• A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Death, Men, Civilization

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.149, Indiana University Press

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• I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.

  Lauren Bacall

  Made, Sad Times, Continuing

  Lauren Bacall (2005). “By Myself and Then Some”, Large Print Press

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• The Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki once stated, 'International cultural exchange is impossible - therefore we must try.' I agree with all my heart. The impossibility of seeing beyond one's own cultural context is a political act in the world and has the potential to break down the rigid assumptions surrounding us.

  Anne Bogart

  Heart, Political, Trying

  Anne Bogart (2007). “And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpredictable World”, p.16, Taylor & Francis

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• Simple exchanges can break down walls between us, for when people come together and speak to one another and share a common experience, then their common humanity is revealed. We are reminded that we're joined together by our pursuit of a life that's productive and purposeful, and when that happens mistrust begins to fade and our smaller differences no longer overshadow the things that we share. And that's where progress begins.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Simple, Common Humanity

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• Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.

  Jack White

  Art, Opportunity, Simple

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• A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.

  Lisi Harrison

  Spiritual, Enlightenment, Burritos

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• I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris... and then I will walk.

  Shane Koyczan

  Fall, Useless, Want

  FaceBook post by Shane Koyczan from Aug 30, 2012

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• If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Disappear Completely, Practice

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

  Charles Dickens

  Pride, Sickness, Manhood

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• Life is simply better when we are with others, and worse when we are isolated. God designed us to be connected, and life breaks down when we are not.

  John Townsend

  Life, Connected, Isolated

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• At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down.

  Walter Kirn

  Persistence, Quality, Sound

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• Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records

  Shiv Khera

  People, Records, Adverse

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• Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sports, Powerful, Government

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

  Leon Uris

  Writing, People, Break

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